We professional bloggers outnumber firefighters or computer programmers
April 23rd, 2009 at 09:51am Pat Cunningham
 
 Much to my surprise, I find that I’m a member of one of America’s fastest-growing professions — bloggers who profit from their labors.
 There are umpteen gazillion bloggers on the Internet, but only 1.7 million of them get paid for their efforts — and 452,000 depend on blogging as their primary source of income. But that makes professional bloggers almost as numerous as lawyers.
 Mark Penn OFFERS some interesting slants on this phenomenon, including the observation that bloggers “on the extreme right or left, or those that are the most titillating, seem to drive the most traffic through their sites. The center doesn’t seem to have either the edge or the passion to grab the same kind of traffic.”
 That argument is in keeping with points made yesterday in the first few comments on THIS POST.
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